The EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM is the first true Macro lens in the EF-S series. A dynamic, compact, fast-focusing lens providing dramatic detail that goes beyond the human eye.
Up close
With its ability to focus life-size images onto the image sensor, the EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM offers true macro performance in the EF-S lens series. Having an effective focal length of approximately 96mm in 35mm format, it produces breathtaking close-up results. A minimum focusing distance of just 20cm gets you super close to your subject, filling your frame only with the subject detail you require.
A world in miniature
The EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM works in harmony with EF-S mount EOS cameras to let you explore an exciting new photographic dimension. Nature photographers will delight in the ability to capture the intricate beauty of tiny features. With capacity to reproduce an image on the sensor that is as large as the subject itself, you take your audience inside a magnificent miniature world.
Background Blur
Portrait photographers will enjoy working with the large aperture, which narrows Depth of field and creates beautiful background blur, making your subject stand out with dramatic effect.
Travelling light
The EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM adds enormous versatility to your kit while adding little weight. Its near-silent Ultra Sonic Motor (USM) provides super-fast precision auto-focusing with full-time manual override.
Resolution and quality
Over 60 years of optical engineering heritage have gone into producing a lens that delivers exacting picture quality standards. Canon lens technologies combine to produce high corner-to-corner resolution, Brightness, contrast and balanced colour reproduction, throughout all focusing distances.
Built for digital
Designed specifically for digital photography, the lens has specially shaped lens elements with Super Spectra coatings to suppress ghosting and flare, which can be caused by reflections off a digital camera sensor. An exclusive optional lens hood further reduces the incidence of flare.
As you would expect from canon, this is a well built lens that looks great and works smoothly. The mount is the EF-S, which sports a white spot as opposed to the more normal red of the standard EF mount. The lens can only be used on the Canon 20D, 300D, and 350D cameras that supports the mount. Autofocus is quite and suprisingly quick, thanks to canon's USM mechanism. Focusing is carried out internally, giving the added advantages that the lens neither extends in leght nor does its front elemnt rotate in operation. This make use of filters in the 52mm thread a mush simpler operation. For a newly designed lens, its resolution performance is slightly dissapointing. Centrally it does ok but the edges are dissapointing and don't improve with stoppinf down. The center peaks very early at f5.6, quality gradually falls away from thenon. Distortion is well handled with very slight pincushion that almost undetetable to the eye.Chromatic aberrations are well handled with very slight acceptable limits riht across the frame and thoughout the aperture range.
Verdict.
For a recently introduced lens, this lens's optical performance was a tad on the dissapointing side. It'll give a decent rather than spectacular performance.
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Conclusions at a glance
Would you recommend this Item: Yes Pros: Fast and accurate AF, good wide-aperture quality Cons: Restrictive mount, no lens hood supplied, dissapointing overall. performance.
User Lens Reviews
Average user rating from: 49 user(s)
Overall rating (weighted)
4.5
Sharpness
4.4
Build Quality
4.5
AF Speed
4.5
Value for Money
4.4
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Great For Dental Photography, Friday, 24 October 2008
Overall rating (weighted)
4.8
Sharpness
5.0
Build Quality
5.0
AF Speed
4.0
Value for Money
5.0
I have a Canon Rebel XT camera and a Canon MR-14EX Macro Ring Lite, and this has really helped improve the quality of my close up photography. This is definitely worth the money. It has worked great since I started using it a month ago.
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Canon 60mm Macro lens, Thursday, 23 October 2008
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4.5
Sharpness
4.0
Build Quality
5.0
AF Speed
5.0
Value for Money
4.0
Crisp, fast and versitile. I have found this lens to be remarkable. Close-ups of flowers and insects are easy and the auto focus seems fast enough for me, although it can get confused if there are too many possible focusing points in an image while shooting macro. I do not find this any worse than my other lenses though, that is what manual is for. Great landscape and portrait shots also.I use it most of the time. Buy it, you won't be sorry.
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Outstanding Macro Lens, Tuesday, 14 October 2008
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5.0
Sharpness
5.0
Build Quality
5.0
AF Speed
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
This lens does not disappoint for Macro shots or Portraits. The quality is outstanding and is worth every penny.
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Great Macro lens for the price, Tuesday, 14 October 2008
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4.0
Sharpness
3.0
Build Quality
4.0
AF Speed
5.0
Value for Money
4.0
This lens really is amazing, great colors, great detail. It took a long time to decide between this one and the EF 100mm Macro so for the extra $100 savings, I went this route. I mostly photograph flowers so the shorter range doesn't bother me too much, but looking back, I should have gone the 100mm route. I'm very happy with the construction, IQ, etc, but the extra reach would have been nice. Live and learn. I will say (as I always do with Canon lenses) that a lens hood would have been nice for the price (which is why only 4 stars). I bought a collapsable rubber one and it makes a great difference.
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great lens, Wednesday, 27 August 2008
Overall rating (weighted)
4.8
Sharpness
5.0
Build Quality
4.0
AF Speed
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
I received this lens for my birthday and took some flower pictures before I went and then a bunch of pictures while on vacation. this is a great lens for multipurpose walking around. It is lighter than my telephoto zoom, takes sharp pictures with amazing detail. I would recommend it for a second lens to anyone who already has a zoom. I am looking forward to setting up to photograph my mother-in-law's artwork with it as well.
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BRILLIANT, Friday, 25 July 2008
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4.8
Sharpness
5.0
Build Quality
5.0
AF Speed
4.0
Value for Money
5.0
I am an amateur camera guy - so you won't get any technical words from me.
Excellent lens - sharp image - light (as compared with the 100mm). Should be part of everyone's kit particularly if you enjoy both portrait and macro work.
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Great macro lens!, Sunday, 13 July 2008
Overall rating (weighted)
4.8
Sharpness
5.0
Build Quality
5.0
AF Speed
5.0
Value for Money
4.0
I got this lens cheap on auction site (you know where). I used it with my XTi, and the difference between this baby and the kit 18-55 is huge! Image by the kit lens is dark and grainy, the color is so off. This 60mm creates very nice bokeh, great for outdoor. I took some very nice raindrop pictures. I don't know how better L lenses are, but for normal Joe like me, this lens is definitely the keeper and well worth the price.
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Great macro lens, Wednesday, 04 June 2008
Overall rating (weighted)
4.5
Sharpness
5.0
Build Quality
5.0
AF Speed
4.0
Value for Money
4.0
As a beginner photographer I hesitated to spend the money on this lens, but am very glad I did. It does just what I want it to do and the images turn out great. I would recommend this lens to anyone interested in a macro from Canon.
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Amazing Lens - especially for the price., Thursday, 01 May 2008
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4.5
Sharpness
5.0
Build Quality
4.0
AF Speed
4.0
Value for Money
5.0
This is a great lens - doesn't feel cheap, and the movement is so smooth. Perfect clarity, even handheld. Very pleased.
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Canon EF-60mm f2.8 Macro DSLR lens- I love it, Friday, 18 April 2008
Overall rating (weighted)
4.8
Sharpness
5.0
Build Quality
4.0
AF Speed
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
I really like this 60mm Macro lens. I have had this lens for a little over 30 days. I have shot about 3000 images using my Canon 40D.
I find the lens to be great for macro work and I have also produced some very good portraits using this lens.
The images are very sharp, and I like being able to use the manual focus even when in AF mode.
I really like this lens and do not regret the purchase. I think it is a great lens for the price.
I have already recommend this lens to several friends.
The only negative factor is the AF in very low level light.
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Very nice, Tuesday, 08 April 2008
Overall rating (weighted)
4.0
Sharpness
4.0
Build Quality
4.0
AF Speed
4.0
Value for Money
4.0
Great lens and good price. I bought this as a Christmas gift for a relative who is a budding photographer. She loved it, she gets beautiful close up pictures.
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Perfect shots, even for an amateur, Saturday, 15 March 2008
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4.8
Sharpness
4.0
Build Quality
5.0
AF Speed
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
I bought this lens after reading all kind of reviews that confused the heck out of me: I am ashamed to say that I am the type of photographer who keeps his SLR camera mostly on the "automatic" mode. f stop, ISO and other esoteric concepts escape me, despite reading the Canon manual now and then.
What I needed is to take close up shots of electronic components, the occasional lizard sunbathing, and funky bugs eating away at my garden to get help on the web. Without spending a fortune or hours figuring out the technical doc. Well, mission accomplished on the first try. The lens worked great. Without a tripod, fancy flash or lighting (bright sunlight works wonders) all pictures are clear and can be zoomed into in Windows.
The lens feels well made (it is heavier than the lens that came with my EOS Digital SLR), is very silent and focuses smoothly (with a professional sounding whir).
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Canon's 60 mm f/2.8, Sunday, 09 March 2008
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3.5
Sharpness
3.0
Build Quality
5.0
AF Speed
3.0
Value for Money
3.0
I have found that the digital picture taken through this lens has revealed details that I did not see with the naked eye prior to the shot. The subject matter is detail review of mechanical parts, and the clarity of the details has revealed items never before seen in photo review.
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Great lens at a good price, currently on my camera, Saturday, 08 March 2008
Overall rating (weighted)
4.8
Sharpness
4.0
Build Quality
5.0
AF Speed
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
At first, I was debating between this lens and the Tamron 17-50mm f2.8
I originally ordered the Tamron, but then canceled my order and went with this lens. I know they are not in the same zoom category, but I only had the money to buy 1 new lens. They are both great lens and have been scored very well by professionals and amateurs alike. Since I don't have that much money to spend on photography, I really did my research before purchasing.
I had been interested with macro so this lens seemed perfect- so far it has been. I wanted a wide aperture for portraits and for taking pictures at high school track meets.
FYI, I use a Rebel XT (350D) and bought the lens hood for the lens (Canon ET-67B Lens Hood for EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro USM Digital SLR Lens)
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The best you can get for $350, Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Overall rating (weighted)
4.8
Sharpness
5.0
Build Quality
5.0
AF Speed
5.0
Value for Money
4.0
I got this lens 2 days ago. What can I say, It's amazingly sharp, it's solid build and fast... there aren't any 60mm macro lens which can outperform this one, it's even shaper than the Nikon's macro's (my friend has a D200).
